The role of humility in school counselling relationships: A cross-cultural comparison

Mark Gregory HARRISON; Anjali Miriam DEY; Ji YING; Petra Gregorčič MRVAR; Marjeta SARIC; Sheila Marie HOCSON; John Mark DISTOR; John Ray Acopio; Elgin CLAVECILLAS; Chi Ming LAM; Liz JACKSON

doi:10.1007/s10447-025-09624-0

The role of humility in school counselling relationships: A cross-cultural comparison

Mark Gregory HARRISON
, Anjali Miriam DEY
, Ji YING
, Petra Gregorčič MRVAR
, Marjeta SARIC
, Sheila Marie HOCSON
, John Mark DISTOR
, John Ray Acopio
, Elgin CLAVECILLAS
, Chi Ming LAM
, Liz JACKSON

Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL)

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Abstract

In this multi-continent, cross-cultural study, we investigated the role of humility in counselling relationships between school counsellors and students across Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Europe. A culturally diverse research group interviewed 45 school counsellors and analysed the data thematically. The findings suggest that humility is a relational and context-dependent trait, highlighting how cultural understandings and enactments of humility shape counsellor-student relationships. The study has implications for developing culturally relevant counselling practices in schools, where cultural characteristics, organisational factors, and counsellors’ professional practices interact. Copyright © 2025 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Original language	English
Article number	11
Journal	International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling
Volume	48
Early online date	Dec 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-025-09624-0
Publication status	Published - 2026

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

Humility
School counselling
Cross-cultural

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The role of humility in school counselling relationships: A cross-cultural comparison

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